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Quantum Snake Oil
Wave Encryption
Encoding ciphertext into electromagnetic or other waves describes how data travels, not how it is secured. "Wave encryption" dresses ordinary transmission as a cryptographic feature, and the two belong to entirely different layers.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Unbounded Key Length
Key length matters up to a point, then stops buying security entirely. Claims of unbounded, infinite, or million-bit keys signal a vendor who has confused raw numbers with the hard problems that actually make encryption strong.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Future-Proof Encryption
Every cipher once considered unbreakable has an expiry date, from DES to MD5 to SHA-1. "Future-proof" promises permanence that cryptography has never delivered; the honest goal is crypto-agility, which is almost its opposite.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Air-Gapped Encryption
An air gap is a real security measure and encryption is a real technology, but "air-gapped encryption" welds them into a phrase with no definition — one that papers over a contradiction and overstates what either can do.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Quantum Apocalypse
The quantum threat to cryptography is real, but "quantum apocalypse" wraps it in language built to sell panic. Q-Day is a migration problem with deadlines, not a sudden collapse, and the difference shapes how you should respond.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Removes the Attack Surface
Encryption changes where a system's attack surface sits; it does not remove it. A vendor promising zero attack surface is promising something that cannot exist, which is one of the most reliable warning signs in security.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Zero-Data PQC
"Zero-data PQC" markets the avoidance of data movement as if it were cryptographic protection. But PQC's job is to protect data in transit, which is a separate question from whether your data moves to a cloud during migration.
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Quantum Snake Oil
RSA Is Already Broken
The claim that RSA is already broken is false, and it is spreading fast. RSA-2048 remains unbroken, the largest number factored by Shor's algorithm on real hardware is 21, and the accurate concern is future risk, not present compromise.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Undecidable Encryption
Hilbert's tenth problem is genuinely undecidable. That fact has been used to sell "unbreakable" ciphers for three decades, and the ciphers keep falling — because undecidability is the wrong kind of hardness for cryptography.
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Quantum Snake Oil
AI-Powered Encryption
Artificial intelligence has a real, growing role in cryptography: breaking and stress-testing ciphers. Marketing that claims an AI generates or strengthens your encryption into something unbreakable has inverted how cryptographic security actually works.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Patented Cryptography
A patent proves an idea is novel and non-obvious. It says nothing about whether the cryptography is secure, because patent examiners are not cryptographers and real assurance comes from open analysis, not a grant number.
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Quantum Snake Oil
Operational Perfect Secrecy
Shannon's perfect secrecy has a precise meaning and a non-negotiable cost: the key must be at least as long as the message. "Operational Perfect Secrecy" keeps the prestige of the name while relaxing the requirement that justifies it.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Forescout Data: PQC Adoption Growing Fast, but 90% of Systems Still Exposed
Forescout's internet-wide scan of 160 million SSH hosts finds PQC-capable servers growing fast but still covering barely 12% of the total. OT and medical devices trail far behind, with no asset class on track for full migration by 2029.
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Why the Quantum Attack on ECC Keeps Getting Cheaper, and Where It Stops
An open competition has driven the logical qubits for one secp256k1 point addition into the high 1,100s. The arithmetic says how much further circuit tricks can go, and exactly where they stop.
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Quantum Security & PQC
Trump Signs PQC Executive Order with Hard 2030 and 2031 Deadlines for Federal Migration
Executive Order sets hard federal PQC migration deadlines for 2030 and 2031, extends compliance to contractors through FAR amendments, and orders CISA to define cryptographic bill of materials standards. The timeline compression I predicted a month ago is now signed…
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